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32323324147The Mystery Of The Dead Alewives Of Seneca Lakehttp://irregulartimes.com/2017/07/01/the-mystery-of-the-dead-alewives-of-seneca-lake/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/07/01/the-mystery-of-the-dead-alewives-of-seneca-lake/#commentsSat, 01 Jul 2017 15:24:29 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=52765Visitors to the largest of the Finger Lakes of Upstate New York this 4th of July weekend are thinking twice before they dip a toe in the water. On the eastern side of Seneca Lake, large numbers of 6-inch long silver fish are washing up on shore, dead.

As the summer heat rises, people would like to go swimming, but they don’t want to end up like those fish. They’re wondering if what killed the fish could kill them. Was it a toxic algae? Deadly pollution? An unknown aquatic microorganism?

The answer to this mystery has some ambiguity to it, going back in time to the dawn or serious ecological science in the area. At the heart of the matter is the question of whether this particular species of fish is native to the Finger Lakes, and to Lake Ontario, the Great Lake into which all the Finger Lakes drain.

The fish that are washing up dead on the eastern shores of Seneca Lake are called alewives. The first recorded capture of an alewife in the area dates back to the late 1800s. The trouble is that no one is certain whether the alewives were present in the lakes of Upstate New York before this time. It may be that the alewives weren’t recorded in the region before the late 1800s because they weren’t there before that time, and were introduced through human activity around this time. It could also be that the presence of alewives in the Finger Lakes was not recorded before the late 1800s because careful records weren’t being made before that time.

Whether or not alewives are native to Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes, they aren’t best adapted to these aquatic environments. The range that alewives were first known in was along the Atlantic coast of North America – in saltwater. The cellular physiology of saltwater fish is different from that of freshwater fish. Because the inside of a fish has a higher concentration of salt than the water in freshwater, water soaks into the body of fish swimming in rivers and lakes. Fish that are adapted to live in freshwater have mechanisms for ejecting that excess water from their bodies. Saltwater can’t do so very well.

Alewives are, like salmon and trout, adapted to live most of their adult lives in saltwater, temporarily coming into freshwater streams in order to spawn. Alewives that live their entire lives in lakes merely migrate from deep water to shallow water near the shoreline when they spawn.

The change in conditions that comes along with spawning time for freshwater alewives is too much for many of the fish. They can survive in freshwater, but are weakened by it. When they move from the cool water of deep in the middle of the lake to the warmer water near shore, their metabolisms speed up, and many alewives don’t survive the shock. The annual die-off of alewives thus can be regarded as a natural phenomenon, except for the possible artificial introduction of the fish into the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario in the first place. No manmade pollution or toxic algae is involved.

Alewives spawn at the beginning of the summer, which is why so many of them are washing up dead on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake right now. After they float to the top of the water, the westerly wind pushes them there, where they accumulate until, eventually, they’re eaten by seagulls and racoons.

The remaining mystery is why alewives are called alewives. What do these fish have to do with beer and married women? These fish were named after women who worked in taverns selling ale, who grew large bellies from drinking lots of beer… or for other reasons. Alewives can grow big round bellies as well, and that’s how they got their common name.

Morgan’s initial claims, made with certitude, quickly were exposed as nonsense. The sheriff claimed that the victims, Voncile Smith and her adult sons Richard Smith and John Smith, were killed on a the day of a Blue Moon, but they weren’t. Their bodies were found on that day, but they had been murdered days earlier. Sheriff Morgan claimed that there is a Wiccan tradition of ritual killing on Blue Moons, but there is no such tradition. He claimed that the bodies of the victims were arranged in a ritual fashion, but later police reports contradicted those claims. Morgan said that the method of killing suggested a magic ritual slaying, but the methods of killing commonly occur outside of any ritual context.

When Sheriff Morgan’s claims about the case started to fall apart, he never admitted that he had made up his story. He simply stopped talking to journalists about the Smith murders, though his initial assertions of witchcraft were made at a press conference designed to gain widespread coverage. Sheriff Morgan had promised that he would speak again to journalists once the results of forensic tests were made available, but he didn’t follow through on that promise.

National news organizations that had breathlessly repeated the initial claims of a ritual killing never reported on the evidence that the allegations were false. Instead of admitting that they had spread sensationalistic nonsense, journalists simply pretended that they had never written about the supposed Blue Moon killings of Pensacola in the first place.

Sheriff David Morgan and his journalistic dupes were quick to rush to judgment, but the subsequent process of justice taken on by prosecutors has been very slow. Donald Hartung, a son of Voncile Smith, was arrested and charged with three counts of premeditated 1st degree murder in October of 2015. Hartung entered a plea of not guilty two months later. It was suggested last year that Hartung’s trial would begin in July 2016, but there’s still no trial date set.

The next court date in the case of The State of Florida v. Donald Wayne Hartung will take place in a few weeks, on July 12, when some legal motions will be filed in the case.

There has been no word about whether the prosecutorial team plans to resurrect Sheriff Morgan’s allegations about Wiccan magic Blue Moon ritual involvement in the crime.

Not even the local media in Pensacola has written about the case in a very long time.

Is it a nice comfy blanket that you put at the bottom of your bed in case things get cold in the night?

Is it a kind of cracker the Germans have with their tea?

Does it have anything to do with that strange green frog American Nazis seem to be so fond of?

Perhaps it’s a fast car with a lisp.

Perhaps a covfefe is a gathering of fashionably dressed Wiccans.

Could it be a new sexual maneuver?

Is it a strange new thing that the French have added to the toilet?

Maybe a covfefe is that stuff that gathers in the corners of your eyes before you go to sleep at night, making it difficult to see even the crisp clean lines of the keyboard on the Twitter app on your private cell phone, the number of which you appear to have been giving out to foreign leaders, potentially sending classified information through unsecured lines.

Does anyone out there know what a covfefe is?

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/05/31/what-is-a-covfefe/feed/452618What Are The Secrets Donald Trump Doesn’t Want James Comey To Reveal?http://irregulartimes.com/2017/05/13/what-is-the-secret-donald-trump-doesnt-want-james-comey-to-reveal/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/05/13/what-is-the-secret-donald-trump-doesnt-want-james-comey-to-reveal/#respondSat, 13 May 2017 10:44:19 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=52506If ever there was any doubt that Donald Trump is operating in the mold of Richard Nixon, he released the following statement yesterday:

“James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

The President of the United States is now threatening a witness who are scheduled to testify under oath before Congress. He is also apparently recording the conversations he has with people, in secret and without their permission.

Given that Donald Trump is under suspicion for obstruction of justice, and threatening people who may testify against him, the next obvious step is for Congress to subpoena all recordings Trump has made that relate to his involvement with the Russian attack against the United States in 2016.

What’s particularly baffling is that the President of the United States is conducting blackmail over Twitter. Hasn’t it occurred to Trump that he could make a telephone call to threaten Comey, so as to avoid letting the entire nation in on his intimidation?

Blackmail is a federal crime, punishable by a year in prison. Criminal blackmail is defined as, “A threat to report, or testify against, a person for any violation of federal law, along with a demand for money or something else of value, is considered a federal crime. A conviction could result in up to one year in prison, a fine of up to $100,000, or a combination of the two.” The “something else of value” in Trump’s bizarre public blackmail of James Comey is Comey’s silence.

The big question is this: What is Donald Trump afraid James Comey will reveal – so afraid that he’s been provoked into this outrageous public behavior?

A follow-up question that frightens me is this: What other extreme actions is Donald Trump willing to take in order to keep his secrets from being revealed?

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/05/13/what-is-the-secret-donald-trump-doesnt-want-james-comey-to-reveal/feed/052506Devin Nunes Cancels Congressional Hearing To Cover Up Testimony On Trump’s Collusion With Russiahttp://irregulartimes.com/2017/03/24/devin-nunes-cancels-congressional-hearing-to-cover-up-testimony-on-trumps-collusion-with-russia/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/03/24/devin-nunes-cancels-congressional-hearing-to-cover-up-testimony-on-trumps-collusion-with-russia/#respondFri, 24 Mar 2017 16:20:30 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=52216Earlier this week, U.S. Representative Devin Nunes took information about investigations into Donald Trump’s collaboration with Russian spies attacking the US, and instead of sharing it with the House Intelligence Committee, took it to the White House to warn Donald Trump about it instead. Nunes is supposed to be leading an investigation by the House Intelligence Committee into Trump’s contacts, but it now appears that Nunes is working to obstruct that investigation.

As of Noon today, Devin Nunes still has not shared the information that he took to Donald Trump. It is possible that no such information actually exists, but that Nunes was merely attempting to create a distraction to delay the investigation of Trump.

Nunes engaged in another act of obstruction today by canceling a public hearing about Donald Trump’s contacts with representatives of the government of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and Former Attorney General Sally Yates were scheduled to testify in public on Tuesday about what they know about Donald Trump’s interactions with Russian spies during 2016.

The coverup of Donald Trump’s connections to Russian spies has become too obvious to ignore.

It’s time for Republicans in Congress to abandon the charade and appoint an independent special prosecutor who can get to the bottom of Donald Trump’s role in attacks against the United States without interference.

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/03/24/devin-nunes-cancels-congressional-hearing-to-cover-up-testimony-on-trumps-collusion-with-russia/feed/052216Confirmed Blackmail Against Trump and Manafort By Pro-Russian Ukranianshttp://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/23/confirmed-blackmail-against-trump-and-manafort-by-pro-russian-ukranians/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/23/confirmed-blackmail-against-trump-and-manafort-by-pro-russian-ukranians/#commentsFri, 24 Feb 2017 01:16:10 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=51992Just last month, the world learned about a British intelligence dossier assembled by a former MI6 spy, detailing what appeared to be a years-long collaboration between Donald Trump and Russia’s spy agency. The dossier alleged that spies working for dictator Vladimir Putin had assembled a kompromat – a portfolio full of shocking information to be used for blackmail – on Trump. Portions of that dossier have already been confirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies.

At the time the blackmail plot was executed, Manafort was Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager.

One of the messages referred to Manafort as “Count” – a nickname long ago given to Manafort from Republican Party operatives. It reads:

“Honorable Count!

At the time of my investigation I have discovered bulletproof facts regarding the person – Ukraine resident whos signature is inside the Yanukovich accounting book and who was responsible for rendering assets to you personally for your consulting services during organized meetings.

One of such meetings with Donadl Trump took place on 06.17.2012 with close Yanukovich affiliate – governor of Cherkassy – Mr.S.Tulub.

Considering all the facts and evidence that are in my possession, and before possible decision whether to pass this to NABU or FBI I would like to get your opinion on this and maybe your way to work things out that will persuade me to do otherwise.

I think you and Mr Trump will work out a way to solve this problem of yours. Otherwise official investigation that will be reinforced by the facts that are in my possession will reach also the Federal Government.

With all respect

Sergio

you can reach me at my iMessage (its encrypted) at leshchenko@mail.ru”

A second message from mail.pravda@icloud.com read:

“I need to get in touch with Paul i need to share some important information with him regarding ukraine investigation

I actually have proofs that he received money

If I dont get any reply from you iam gonaa pass it on to the fbi and Ukranian authorities including media

Tell him he has 24 h before i leak all the shit to cops

As soon as he comes back to me i will pass you documents”

Pravda is the name of a Cold War Soviet government propaganda publication. All misspellings are grammatical mistakes are from the original messages.

“Mr.S.Tulub” in the first message refers to Serhiy Tulub, the Minister for Coal in the Ukranian national government. The first message appears to come from a pro-Russian member of the Ukranian parliament, Serhiy Leshchenko.

The fact that compromising information about any meeting between Donald Trump and Serhiy Tulub was not released to the media last year suggests that either Trump and Manafort complied with the demands of the Ukranian blackmailers, or that the blackmail plot failed in some other way.

It is not yet known whether Manafort and Trump agreed to the conditions of the Ukrainian blackmail.

It is also not yet known how many other foreign officials have compromising information about Donald Trump that could be used in a blackmail conspiracy to control his actions.

Many Republicans in Congress are still blocking attempts to investigate these blackmail plots.

Yes, I’m talking to you. If you are sitting there mystified as liberal after liberal calls Trump supporters “bigots,” let me enlighten you. There are some things you need to know about liberals that leads them to label Trump supporters “bigots.” I’ll cover the basics step-by-step so you know how to respond when you see a liberal pull out their “bigots” stamp and place it over the foreheads of Trump supporters.

3 Secret Reasons Why Liberals Say That Trump Supporters are Bigots

Reason #1: Liberals Read Dictionaries

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “bigot” as “one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.” President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the exclusion of Muslims from the United States of America and has indicated that Americans of Mexican descent are not fit to be federal judges who hear his cases. President Donald Trump has acted to exclude people on the basis of their national origin and on the basis of religion. That’s the group-based exclusionary agenda of a bigot. Donald Trump supporters voted to put that agenda in power. Trough their votes, Trump supporters acted to help someone exclude people according to their groups.

Reason #2: Liberals Watch What Trump Supporters Say

In a nationally representative poll conducted on February 7 and 8, registered voters were asked, “Do you support or oppose Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and citizens of certain countries from entering the United States?” The practice of banning entire groups of people based on their country of origin meets the dictionary definition of bigotry. 93% of respondents who voted for Donald Trump indicated support for this bigoted policy. Only 3% of respondents who voted for Hillary Clinton reported similar bigotry.

In the same nationally representative poll, registered voters were asked, “Do you support or oppose banning Muslims from entering the United States?” The practice of banning entire groups of people based on their country of origin meets the dictionary definition of bigotry. Only 43% of respondents who voted for Donald Trump oppose this bigoted policy. In comparison, 86% of respondents who voted for Hillary Clinton do.

In the same poll, registered voters were asked, “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Black History Month?” Only 45% of respondents who voted for Donald Trump told the pollster they have a favorable opinion of Black History Month. In comparison, 81% of Clinton supporters do.

Reason #3: Liberals Watch What Trump Supporters Do

The party of Trump supporters in the U.S. Congress is the Republican Party. What Republicans in Congress do reflects the agenda of the Republican Party, of which Donald Trump is the official head. Those who act to support the Republican Party with Donald Trump at its head act to bolster Republican policy initiatives.

H.R. 140, a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, would exclude American-born babies from this country and revoke their citizenship on the basis of the national origin of their parents. That’s bigotry in action. Every single one of the cosponsors of this bigoted bill is a member of the Republican Party that Donald Trump leads.

There’s your answer. Liberals call Trump supporters bigots because they know what the word “bigot” means, because Trump supporters across the nation express support for bigotry, and because powerful Trump supporters within Congress do the same. Liberals call Trump supporters bigots because they are.

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/16/3-secret-reasons-why-liberals-love-to-say-that-trump-supporters-are-bigots/feed/051942Donald Trump’s Assistants Had Repeated Contact With Russian Spies During His Campaignhttp://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/15/donald-trumps-assistants-had-repeated-contact-with-russian-spies-during-his-campaign/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/15/donald-trumps-assistants-had-repeated-contact-with-russian-spies-during-his-campaign/#respondWed, 15 Feb 2017 15:31:46 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=51926There’s so much going on between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that it’s difficult to keep it all straight. It’s becoming apparent, however, that the issue of Trump’s strange relationship with Russia isn’t going to go away.

So, let’s try to survey the situation so far.

First of all, Donald Trump has made personal business trips to Russia. His son and business partner brags that Russian deals make up a disproportionate amount of the business being done by the Trump companies. Donald Trump has refused to divest himself from those businesses as President.

Trump had individual contact with Vladimir Putin before becoming a presidential candidate, but has since denied that those communications ever took place.

Trump has given extravagant praise to Putin, even defending Putin from accusations of assassination of political opponents and dissidents, saying that it’s not such a big deal if Donald Trump is a killer, because the U.S. isn’t really innocent either.

Trump has declared that NATO is obsolete and suggested if Russia invades and takes over the Baltic nations, the United States might not do anything to stop it.

In July of last year, Trump announced out of the blue that he would like it if Russian spies would attack the American election, criminally stealing information about Hillary Clinton and Democratic politicians, and sharing it with the American people so that he could win the election.

At just about that same time, spies working on direct orders from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin were attacking the American election, hacking into computers used by Democratic politicians, stealing information about Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians. The purpose of these attacks, 17 U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed, was to ensure Donald Trump would win the presidential election. American intelligence agencies have audio recordings of Russian government officials congratulating themselves on electing Trump.

A former British intelligence officer who has been described as credible, conservative, and not prone to exaggeration, assembled a report in 2016 alleging that Trump was recorded on multiple occasions engaging in deeply embarrassing acts that the Russian government is holding over him as blackmail (kompromat), and that Trump served as an informant for Russian spies.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is under investigation for accepting payments directly from the Russian government.

For Secretary of State, Trump appointed Rex Tillerson, an oil company CEO who has had extensive contacts over the years with Vladimir Putin, and has even accepted a medal from the government of Russia.

Just after President Obama announced sanctions against Russia to punish it for attacking the 2016 election, Michael Flynn, who later became National Security Adviser but was at the time a senior adviser to Donald Trump and had no U.S. government position, contacted a Russian diplomat, apparently to reassure the diplomat that the sanctions would be lowered after Trump became President.

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/15/donald-trumps-assistants-had-repeated-contact-with-russian-spies-during-his-campaign/feed/051926Who Else In The White House Has Been Blackmailed By Vladimir Putin?http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/14/who-else-in-the-white-house-has-been-blackmailed-by-vladimir-putin/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/14/who-else-in-the-white-house-has-been-blackmailed-by-vladimir-putin/#commentsTue, 14 Feb 2017 08:04:51 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=51921Weeks ago, Donald Trump was sent a message by Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warning that the government of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin might be blackmailing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Flynn, Yates told Trump, had been in unauthorized contact with a Russian diplomat, Sergey Kislyak, immediately after President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia. During his conversation with the Russian diplomat, Michael Flynn talked about lowering those sanctions once Trump was in office..

Trump did nothing to punish Michael Flynn. Trump and his aides continued to lie about the events, telling Americans that Flynn had not talked with representatives of Vladimir Putin’s government about lowering sanctions.

Last night, Michael Flynn resigned as National Security Adviser. Just hours before that, Donald Trump had expressed “complete confidence” in Flynn.

Flynn’s job only came into peril after anonymous officials within the Trump Administration leaked the news about Flynn’s meeting with Kislyak. Before that, Flynn was secure.

Why? Why did Donald Trump keep a man suspected of being blackmailed by Russia as National Security Adviser?

What other serious security concerns about White House officials aren’t we being told about?

Who else in the White House, besides Flynn and Trump, are suspected of being blackmailed by Russia?

]]>http://irregulartimes.com/2017/02/14/who-else-in-the-white-house-has-been-blackmailed-by-vladimir-putin/feed/251921Texas Mosque Set On Fire One Day After Trump Signs Anti-Muslim Executive Orderhttp://irregulartimes.com/2017/01/29/texas-mosque-set-on-fire-one-day-after-trump-signs-anti-muslim-executive-order/
http://irregulartimes.com/2017/01/29/texas-mosque-set-on-fire-one-day-after-trump-signs-anti-muslim-executive-order/#commentsSun, 29 Jan 2017 15:27:21 +0000http://irregulartimes.com/?p=51804On Thursday, Texas State Representative Kyle Biedermann hosted a meeting of anti-Islam activists at the Texas State Capitol Building in the city of Austin.